The Republican journal., 1887-05-05
Generalities.


a railway to the Mammoth cave in Kentucky
has been completed.
The semi-annual dividends payable in Boston
In May foot up $3,,A,612.
Manufacturers are uniting to take part in the
leading questions of the day.
The Nicaraguan Congress has ratified the
Menocal contract for canal.
Political circles in Mexico are agitatcd over
the question, Will Diaz succeed himself:
Building operations in New York are checked
by fears of strikes among the workmen.
DR.. Goodwin Smith, in a lecture at Ithaca,
thought the war of the Revolution was a mis-
take.
Sixteen fishing vessels. damaged bv the re-
cent gale or the Banks, have arrived at Halifax,
Ms.
Seventeen persons were recently lost at sea
with the schooner Flying Scud, from Kodiak,
Alaska.
Sales of several immense tracts of land in
Mexico are reported, aSgregating millions of
acres.
The western railroads will allow all cattle
men passes on the pretence that they are em-
poye>.
The Old Colony Company intend to build a
companion boat to the Pilgrim to be called the
Puritan.
The wife of Washington Irving Bishop, the
so-called mind reader, has filed a divorce.
some of the charges are very unsavory.
The Swiss State Council has ratified the
literary copyright convention with the United
States.
The peach trees of Maryland and Delaware
are in such bloom that plenteous crop is
promised.
The Vermont Supreme Court has declared an
attempt to intimid; te or boycott workmen a
criminal conspiracy.
There are 800 Chinese in Philadelphia. of
whom ITO are in Sunday schools and 20 have
protested Christie
brother of doc" Wilson is reported as
having cleared about $500 at Webster. Mass,
by selling stolen horses
The Toledo, Ann Arbor and Northern Rail-
road Company has adopted Il system of profit
sharing with its employees.
The British and North American Glass
Works at Montreal, the largest in Canada, have
been burned. Loss $4,000.
The American Forestry Congress is invited
TO hold It's next session at Springfield, ILL.,, and
become the guests of the State.
The jury before whom the assassins of the
Rev Mr.. Haddock was tried in Sioux City, la.
disagreed and We're discharged.
The Downs scandal at Boston is to be revived
III anew trial of the eN-pastor's suit against his
former society for unpaid salary.
Its reported that Russia has proposed to re-
init the Turkish war indemnity in return for Il
ces>ion Of territory in Asia Minor.
\ club to offset free trade theories was or
ganized in Boston last week. George Draper
OF Ilopcdalc was elected President
Goodell, the accused pastor, has been acquit-
ted by the Methodist Conference at Fall River.
The announcement was received with applause.
Two creoles of New Orleans engaged in
fencing match after Il wine supper. The foil
OF one pierced the eye of the other and killed
him.
At least 400 children are said to be down with
the measles in Madison, Wis., and many adults
are afflicted. The public schools have been
closed.
The VIII of Alexander Mitchell. the Wiscon-
SIN miillonalre, has been made public. His
wealth Is S23,0W0, 900. most of Which GOES to an
only son.
The last of the Molly Magures,'' Donncllv
and OBrien, are recommended by the Penn
syvania Board of Pardons for Executive
cemcncy.
The official majority against prohibition in
Michigan, with Manitou county missing. is
$3.50. The Republican pluralities range from
81 ,314 to ;i5,495.
The Boston anu Maine has leased the Boston
and Lowell and the Northern Roads, subject to
the approval of the stockholders and the New
Hampshire Legislature.
The Agricultural Bureau promises to expose
the fraudulent practices of certain manufact-
urers of olcomargarine, butterinc and other I'M
savOry compounds.
lie Boston and Maine railroad is playing
strong hand among railroad corporations The
more ii has the more it wants, like many anoth-
er business concern.
Inc ~ O'Clock system now working so sue
cessfully on the Canadian Pacific will be intro
duced OIL the 1ntercolonial Railway with the
summer time table arrangement
Ihe people of Vermont are preparing a hos
pltabe welcome for the members of the Amer
lcan Institute of Instruction, who have their
annual session at Burlington in july.
1t is stated that Mr.. Chamberlavne is now
deslrous that race. without restriction AS to
the use OF centreboardS. should occur in Eng
land between the Mayflower and Arrow.
Mrs. Annie Bell is in Jail at Boston charged
WIN ln1anticide. 1t was shown bv postmor-
TEN that the inhuman mother buried her babe
III the clay pits at North Cambridge while it
was still alive.
n Io-year-old son of the Widow Bacber, liy-
ing near Upper Sandusky, o., who was arous-
ed by tramp trying to force an entrance to
lhe mouse, seized shotgun and blew the in
trl,lcrS head off.
Last Saturday the Rev. T.. H. Dabnev of
fioriS, Iowa, left home, telling his wife that he
was gong to baptise some converts, Ii has
TRANSFERRED that he eloped with the 17-vear-old
sister of his wife,
The Governor of New York has signed the
Burns Insurance bill, prohibiting foreign in
,urahce companies from doing more than one
KIND of insurance in that state, to which home
companies are restricted.
The office, composing rooms and press room
OF me New orkcr Zeitung were Quilted recent
~ by an lneendiary fire, the third within a
week. Suspicious fasten Oh anarchists whose
toes have been trodden on.
A gigantic scheme, bv which the entire river
coal industry from the MonoDgahela Valley to
New orleans Will be controlled by one power
lui syndicate. Is being considered by all the Ope-
rators between those points.
Victor Hugo's will has been admitted to bro
bate. His property in England is valued at
t92,0OO. His daughter and grandchildren are
the sole heirs. An annuity of f4OO is left to
the widow of his son Charles
The memory of Garfield will be appropriate
~ honorcd by the unwilling of a bronze statue
IN Washington on May II. 1t is tribute from
that gallant band of veterans, the Army of the
Cumberland, Garfel,l's companions in arms
1t is reported that Barnum's suit for 500. OOO
damages against the Grand Trunk Railway for
killing Jumbo has been withdrawn upon the
company's agreeing to pay 1000 in cash and to
haul eighty circus ears free next season. a total
equivalent of $4,000.
The Cattle Commissioners of New Hamp-
SHIRE have issued an official circular, directed
to the Boards of Seleetmen, notifying them
that cattle quarantine against Massachusetts,
and New York has been ordered on account of
the alleged existence OF pleuro-pneumonia in
those States.
The President has issued proclamation Sis
pending the discriminating duties tonnage.
taxes, etc.. upon vessels of the Netherlands and
Dutch East Indies, under the law authorizing
MN to make such exemptions where similar
advantages have been afforded vessels of the
United states.
A very hohl train robbery on the Southern
Pacific near Tucson, Arizona, was carried ont
"Wednesday night, April 9th. An express
was stopped by half a dozen men who over
powered the authorities. The express and
mail car was then searched thoroughly but
only about $4,000 was captured.
The American Art Gallery of New York has
awarded a prize of $1,000 to Edward Cav of
Boston for '.Broad Acres.' landscanf Of mea